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Security. there's been about $18 billion spent on aid to pakistan. that's the country where much of the time the u.s. has been hunting for bin laden, and in new york city, the attacks on the world trade center cost the city's economy between $83 billion and $95 billion just in the first year after the attacks. the total, one economist estimates 9/11 has cost the u.s. economy some $2.5 trillion. whatever the final figure is, there's no denying that bin laden has forced the u.s., britain, and many other countries around the world to spend big money on protecting themselves, and that in turn has ...

People. and i said something to him i believe even more strongly now at the top of my 20 minutes of remarks, i said to him i believe presidential politics needs to be about truth telling and educating the people and not about pandering. and if there was one basing idea that would help us to do what we need to do, it would be for the president to tell us the bitter truth. no politics, no worrying about the next election, but a truthful telling of where we are and the things we need to do in order to be in a place where we're a sustainable america. >> and did he do that? >> no. so here, simpson-...

At the top of my 20 minutes of remarks, i said to him i believe presidential politics needs to be about truth telling and educating the people and not about pandering. and if there was one basing idea that would help us to do what we need to do, it would be for the president to tell us the bitter truth. no politics, no worrying about the next election, but a truthful telling of where we are and the things we need to do in order to be in a place where we're a sustainable america. >> and did he do that? >> no. so here, simpson-bowles numbers, again, which are more favorable than his. in 2020 und...

Echlon. >> steve: you made their point. there is plenty of money and nick, you say that is faulty thinking. >> it is a republican problem and democrat problem. with happened in the federal,itate and local levels. we spent money like drunken sailors could not do . wisconsin interestingly has the fourth highest combineditate and local tax burden coming in after new york and new jersey temperature is tax to the gills . so we are out of money. the states are looking at 125 billion short fall over the next couple of years and state and local governments and 56 out of 83 billion and the feds of cour...

United states. now japan is slightly over 40%. here is where we are. at 45%. where are we. there we are, 4%. who is going to buy our debt? japan's central bank injected 15 -- i thought it was a billion, but it's trillion, isn't it? trillion yen. $183 billion. right in to the market to stabilize their economy. the nuclear meltdown story is the one that everybody is talking about. the one that really truly affects every human on earth is the possibility of the global economic or bond meltdown.